Definitions for magic

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Spelling: [maj-ik]

IPA: /ˈmædʒ ɪk/

Magic is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 61 anagrams from letters in magic (acgim).

Definitions for magic

noun

1. the art of producing illusions as entertainment by the use of sleight of hand, deceptive devices, etc.; legerdemain; conjuring:
2. the art of producing a desired effect or result through the use of incantation or various other techniques that presumably assure human control of supernatural agencies or the forces of nature. Compare contagious magic, imitative magic, sympathetic magic.
3. the use of this art:
4. the effects produced:
5. power or influence exerted through this art:
6. any extraordinary or mystical influence, charm, power, etc.:
7. (initial capital letter) the U.S. code name for information from decrypting machine-enciphered Japanese wireless messages before and during World War II.

adjective

1. employed in magic:
2. mysteriously enchanting; magical:
3. of, relating to, or due to magic.
4. producing the effects of magic; magical:

verb (used with object)

1. to create, transform, move, etc., by or as if by magic:

Origin of magic

1350-1400; Middle English magik(e) witchcraft Late Latin magica, Latin magicē Greek magikḗ, noun use of feminine of magikós. See Magus, -ic

Examples for magic

Shortly thereafter, T.I. lent his first post-incarceration verse to a remix of “magic.”

Despite all the gun talk in “Hot N—,” everyone wanted a piece of him and his magic.

In one study, children saw a magic trick where objects placed into one box were duplicated in another.

The future Mr. Vergara—and star of ‘True Blood’ and ‘magic Mike’ shares some life advice in an exclusive video.

She has the fascination of great pride and the magic of manners.

The truth was that it was only by trusting to the magic of the white men that Patofa could get to us.

I have existed in a magic Bohemia, largely of my own making.

They had not seen the snake at all, but a stick that came back to the thrower's hand was magic.

What magic in the utterance, what a revelation of Cleopatra's character and of Shakespeare's!

Captivated by the performers and the magic, she has been shooting behind the scenes ever since.